‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ tops UK-Ireland box office with £1.2m, just ahead of ‘Regretting You’

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Bruce Springsteen biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere won a close race at the top of this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office, holding off the challenge of romantic drama Regretting You. 

Disney’s Deliver Me From Nowhere started with £1.23m from 696 sites at a £1,767 average. Including previews, the film has £1.3m.

Paramount’s Regretting You opened to £1.19m, and has £1.28m including previews. The film took a higher location average, taking £2,089-per-site from 571 cinemas.

Tatsuya Yoshihara’s anime Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc brought in a strong £1.1m, from 412 sites at a £2,670 average. It should overtake the £1.2m total of another Sony anime, 2021’s Demon Slayer: Mugen Train, within the next few days.

Universal claimed fourth and fifth spot, with its new titles from the previous session. Last weekend’s number one Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie dropped 50%, with £863,957 taking it to £3.2m total.

Horror Black Phone 2 performed slightly better, falling 43% on its second session with £628,237 taking it to £2.3m cume.

Takings for the top five dropped 6% to £5m; and are down a disappointing 24% on the equivalent weekend from last year. No blockbuster titles are starting next weekend, with Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia among the major releases. Exhibitors will look to November for wide releases including Disney’s Predator: Badlands (November 7), Paramount’s The Running Man (November 12) and Universal’s Wicked: For Good (November 21) to create momentum towards the end of the year.

Mastermind figures it out

Roofman starring Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst added £306,000 on its second session – a 50% drop that brought it to £1.4m for Paramount.

Filmed play Mrs. Warren’s Profession starring Imelda Staunton took £150,043 at the weekend through National Theatre Live, and has £640,496 in total following a Thursday 23 event release.

Trafalgar Releasing’s re-release of stop-motion animation ParaNorman took £132,429 at the weekend, and has £186,523 including Thursday previews. The film made £6.4m on its original 2012 release through Universal.

Aziz Ansari’s Good Fortune added £114,742 on its second weekend for Lionsgate – a 63% drop that brought it to £637,368.

Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind starring Josh O’Connor started with £96,034 for Mubi. Opening in 65 locations, it took a healthy £1,477 location average – one of few independent titles to have made more than £1,000-per-cinema in recent months. Including previews, the film has £204,600 already banked – making it indie auteur Reichardt’s highest-grossing film in the territory already, ahead of the £160,636 of 2010’s Meek’s Cutoff.

Lionsgate’s latest Twilight re-release, 2011’s Breaking Dawn – Part 1, took £65,771, in addition to the sizeable £31m from the film’s original run.

Concert film Mitski: The Land made £37,114 at the weekend for Trafalgar Releasing, and £91,887 in total since opening on Wednesday, October 22.

Lionsgate’s Stephen King adaptation The Long Walk added £22,124 on its seventh weekend, and has £4.6m in total.

Elysian Film Distribution’s 4K restoration of Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke added £17,262 on its latest session, and has £463,607 across its run this year.

National Theatre Live’s Inter Alia starring Rosamund Pike added £6,548 on its eighth weekend in cinemas, and is up to a healthy £2.2m cume.

More to follow.

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